I think I may have found the Holy Grail of 80s metal guitar tones!

For starters, I'm using the Blackstar AMPED 3, and this video is sponsored by Blackstar (never would I have dreams of getting such an awesome partnership...and by the way, I went after them!)

***You can grab your AMPED 3 here (my Sweetwater affiliate link):
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When it comes to metal amps, I usually skip the crunch channel and go straight to the high gain overdriven channel. Those are usually going to give you, well, a metal sound.

Even for the not-so-aggressive genres of metal, like 80s metal and some of the classic thrash metal music, I've always gravitated towards the super high gain channels and would just back the gain off a bit. That just sounded better.

But I've got to say that the Crunch channel (on the Super Crunch setting) has a really nice sound to it for this style of hard rock and heavy metal.

I'd even use this channel for heavier guitar tones because it has so much clarity to it.

Of course, I also go over the clean tones in the video from the 80s metal song I recorded (in this video prior to this).

***If you didn't hear the full 80s metal instrumental song, check it out here:
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I also share the recording process with you. I like the Cab Rig that Blackstar created for its AMPED series of pedals. But the AMPED 3 sounds awesome through an actual cabinet. In this case, the 2x12 EVH cab (I'm looking to try this with a 4x12 Mesa cab soon, so stay tuned!)

I hope you enjoyed this video. Leave me any questions in the comments and I'd love to know what you think about the tones you heard.

Keep Playing Music,
Jason

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